I boycott economically. So I’ll eat a hamburger, but not one from McDonald’s, et al. I’m not even sure what boycotting a culture even means, nor what it would entail and/or accomplish.

So I don’t buy anything that winds up lining the pockets of Americans. That’s my boycott. This means that, for example, my next smartphone will not be running iOS or Android. It means I don’t go to American chain restaurants or buy brands owned by American companies (even, perhaps especially, if they claim, like a certain famous brand of ketchup in Canada does with its tomatoes, to source the raw materials in the host country). It means that I will not pay to see an American movie, nor to listen to the music of an American band.

Why would anyone boycott Native clothes, songs and dances?

I went to an American themed BBQ place a few weeks ago and thought about this. It’s not a chain, it’s a single place owned (I assume) by an American immigrant.

I should therefore support them as they have left America. (And it was really good! The soft drinks were weird though)

I love Weimar America as much as I love Weimar Germany. ICE can have jazz, rock’n’roll, the beat poets, David Lynch, Prince, Bikini Kill, Calvin & Hobbes, etc. when they take them from my cold, dead fingers

American Culture is Common Culture at this point…

For years, the United States has benefited most from globalization. They either don’t admit it or don’t realize it.

Include anche la lingua inglese. Da adesso su Lemmy si parla solo Italiano.

I’m from Russia, so I don’t need to boycott American corporations myself, American corporations boycott me themselves. :D
It’s a joke.

But in reality, I just try to minimize my purchases from multi-billion dollar corporations whenever possible. I prefer buying indie, open-source or custom. Nothing about culture. As others have already said, nowadays American culture is mostly common culture. Sometimes I think about buying a Chinese CPU or GPU. And in general, I have a pretty limited budget.

I’m really trying, but it’s so hard. So much turns out to be American if you look closely. It looks like a local company, which on closer inspection is owned by a parent company, which is owned by some sort of group entity, which is owned by big US Corp.

Just today I bought some chips/crisps (flat crunchy potato product), they were on promotion and my monkey brain said: “Yes tasty! Buy buy, buy now, eat later, tasty!”. It wasn’t till I was home I looked it up and jup, it’s ultimately owned by PepsiCo. Fuck…

Getting rid of all the digital services that are American or run on American owned infrastructure is hard as well. Even local services often use AWS or Azure. And I found it’s often pretty hard to find that out without actually getting the services, which is exhausting.

For some things it’s morally hard as well. I’ve been supporting a content creator for years now. He has a small community and we like to chat on Discord a lot. He lives in the US and streams on Twitch and YouTube. I would rather not use Twitch and YouTube or support him using PayPal for example. On the other hand, he’s a good dude, he didn’t vote for this shit. I consider him a digital friend and actually met him once. I’m not sure what to do, I’ve got very mixed feelings about it.

this post comes off as too woke.